1. Who is responsible for the app?
Spina Giovanni Emanuele is the developer and the controller responsible for the information processed to operate Watch Party: Video & Music, also called Video & Music with Friends (the “App”).
Contact and privacy requests: https://spinagiovanni.com/contact/
Email: creo.app.app@gmail.com
The App supports private rooms for shared video and music playback, chat, and optional file downloads. It does not require you to register an account.
The App can include advertisements provided through Google AdMob and optional Google Play purchases to remove ads. The advertising and purchase sections apply only when those components are enabled in the version you use. A version without these components does not carry out the corresponding advertising or purchase processing.
2. Information handled by the App
- Your chosen name and installation identity. You enter a display name. A random identifier stored on your device allows the service to recognise your installation and its room memberships. The room service stores a hashed form of that identifier. This room identity is distinct from an advertising identifier.
- Room and playback information. Room names, invitation codes, membership identifiers, admin and playback-control roles, online and ready status, personal-break status, saved-room references, connection-quality indicators, and playback position are used to run and synchronise rooms.
- Chat. Messages, selected quick phrases, the sender’s displayed name, and timestamps are shared with room participants. The room keeps only the latest 30 messages.
- File information. For files you choose to share, the room service handles the filename, label, media type, size, duration, integrity hash, owner reference and availability. These details are visible to other participants in the room.
- Network and technical information. IP addresses, connection signalling, timing and connection diagnostics are processed to connect devices, display connection quality, prevent abuse, and maintain the service. Hosting and network providers may also process ordinary access and security logs.
- Reports and blocking. If you submit an in-app report, we retain the selected reason, room and content references, the participants’ pseudonymous identifiers when available, and the selected chat excerpt, display name or file metadata needed to review it. Reports do not include the video or audio file itself. A block stores the identities involved and the blocked participant’s display name so the service can prevent contact through a shared room.
- Support information. If you contact us, we receive the contact details, message and any attachments you choose to send.
- Advertising and purchase information. Where enabled, the information described in sections 4 and 5 is processed by the relevant services and, where necessary, by the developer.
The App’s sharing features do not require access to your contacts, microphone, camera, or precise device location. You choose which files to open through your device’s file picker.
3. Videos, music, local storage and downloads
Shared video and audio file contents travel directly between connected participants using peer-to-peer connections. The room service handles room information and connection signalling; it does not upload your media into a central video or music archive.
Your selected source files may be cached locally on your device so that existing queue entries can become available when you return. Files received for playback are prepared in device memory. If a participant explicitly downloads a file, an independent copy is saved on that participant’s device.
Share only with people you trust. Other participants receive the media you share and may keep copies. Deleting a room, removing a queue entry or clearing your cache cannot delete a file that someone else has already downloaded.
Peer-to-peer connections can expose network addresses to the devices and connection-discovery services involved in establishing the connection. The App uses Google’s public STUN connection-discovery service to help establish direct connections; that service processes network-address information rather than receiving the media files. The room’s display names, chat, file details and selected content are shared with participants, not with a public feed.
Preferences and the installation identifier are kept in local device storage. Selected source-file copies use the device’s local media cache. Clearing cached files removes those cached copies; original files and files saved separately in Downloads are not removed by that action.
4. Advertising — Google AdMob
Ad-supported versions use Google AdMob to request, show and measure advertisements. Depending on the SDK, your choices and device settings, Google may process:
- IP address, which can indicate approximate location;
- advertising identifiers, app-set identifiers, and other device or account-related identifiers where applicable;
- ad impressions, clicks, app interactions and advertising-related activity;
- technical and diagnostic information about the device, app and advertising SDK.
This information can be used to deliver advertisements, measure performance, personalise ads where permitted, and detect fraud or abuse. Disabling personalisation does not necessarily stop the technical data needed for ad delivery and fraud prevention.
Where required by applicable law, consent is requested before consent-dependent advertising processing. Where Google makes its consent choices available, use Ad privacy choices in the App settings to review or withdraw them. The room service can also use your IP address to estimate your country for ad availability. This does not require access to precise device location. Android’s advertising-ID controls and Google’s advertising settings provide additional choices.
The room service does not intentionally send your chat messages, room invitation codes, filenames, labels, or video and music contents to AdMob for advertising personalisation.
Read Google’s Privacy Policy, How Google uses information from apps that use its services, and Google’s advertising controls for more information.
5. In-app purchases and ad removal
On Android, versions with purchasing enabled can offer a one-time purchase to remove ads. Google Play shows the price in your local currency and the purchase details before you confirm.
Purchases made through the Google Play version are processed by Google Play and its payment services. We do not receive your full payment-card number, bank credentials, or Google account password.
We use RevenueCat to check and restore purchases. When the purchase SDK is enabled, RevenueCat uses a pseudonymous installation identifier and technical information to operate the integration. It can process the Google Play product identifier, purchase token, purchase date and status, and the state of your ad-removal entitlement. We use these records to verify, restore and support purchases and prevent fraud. See RevenueCat’s privacy policy.
Removing ads does not erase information already processed by advertising services, delete saved-room information, or remove payment records held by Google. Payment handling and retention are also governed by Google’s Privacy Policy and the Google Payments Privacy Notice.
6. Purposes and legal bases
We use the information necessary to provide the features you request: creating and reopening rooms, connecting participants, synchronising playback, delivering chat, sharing chosen files and providing purchased access. Where applicable, this processing is necessary to perform our service relationship with you.
We rely on legitimate interests for proportionate service security, abuse prevention, troubleshooting and support, subject to your rights. Consent is the basis for processing that legally requires it, including applicable advertising personalisation and access to non-essential device identifiers. Records may also be processed where required to comply with legal obligations.
Choosing to use the App does not, by itself, constitute consent to all advertising processing. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing performed before withdrawal.
8. How long information is kept
- Chat: the latest 30 messages are kept for the room; a new message replaces the oldest when that limit is reached. Permanently deleting the room removes its active chat history from the room service.
- Saved-room information: room metadata remains available so members can return. Closing or leaving a room does not permanently delete it. The admin can permanently delete the room; a participant can remove their participation and associated queue entries.
- Local information: preferences, installation identity and cached source files remain until removed through available controls, app or device storage cleanup, uninstallation, or storage reclamation. Downloaded copies must be managed separately on the device where they were saved.
- Temporary connection state: signalling and active transfer state are kept as needed for connection setup, the active session, cancellation and abuse prevention.
- Reports and blocking: the in-app moderation queue keeps reports for 30 days. A block stays in place until you remove it or we erase the associated records following a valid request. Temporary suspensions expire after seven days. We may retain records separately where required by law.
- Support, security and purchase records: retained for the period necessary to resolve the request, maintain service security, establish purchased access, prevent fraud, and meet applicable legal record-keeping requirements. The applicable need or legal obligation determines the period.
Deletion from our service does not remove copies held independently by other participants, Google or another provider under its own policy. If restricted operational backups exist, deleted records may remain until the relevant backup is replaced or expires; they are not used to restore normal access to a deleted room.
9. Your controls and privacy rights
You can choose what to share, stop participating, clear cached files, change available preferences, and manage your saved-room participation. You can remove a block in Settings under Blocked participants. Only the room creator can permanently delete the entire room. Clearing device data or uninstalling can lose the installation identity and access to saved rooms; this does not itself delete room information kept by the service.
Depending on the law that applies to you, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability, or object to certain processing. You may also withdraw consent and complain to your local supervisory authority. In Italy, the supervisory authority is the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali.
To request deletion or exercise another right, use our contact page or email creo.app.app@gmail.com, identifying Watch Party: Video & Music and explaining your request. No registered account is needed to send a privacy request. We may ask for proportionate information to locate the relevant records and verify your authority over a room or installation. Do not send passwords or full payment-card details.
We respond within the period required by applicable law, normally one month for requests under the GDPR, subject to permitted extensions. Requests relating to Google’s independent advertising or payment records can also be made through Google’s privacy controls.
10. International processing and security
Participants may connect from different countries. Google and other service providers may process information outside your country, including outside the European Economic Area. Where required, applicable safeguards such as adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses govern relevant transfers. Provider privacy notices explain their processing and safeguards; contact us for information about transfers for which we are responsible.
The released Android app connects to the room service over HTTPS. The direct file transfers use encrypted WebRTC data channels. We limit access to moderation records to authorized service operators. Invitation codes and installation identifiers should be kept private. No service or transmission can be guaranteed completely secure, and room participants can keep or redistribute content they receive.
11. Children’s information
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where required parental consent has not been obtained. If you believe a child’s information has been provided without legally required permission, contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action. Advertising and purchase features must also comply with applicable age and consent requirements.
12. This page and external services
This privacy page does not embed advertising or analytics scripts. The website host may process ordinary access and security logs when you visit. Following a link to Google, a store, or another external website is subject to that provider’s policy. Other apps on the developer’s website may have their own privacy notices; this notice is specific to Video & Music with Friends.
13. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the App and its services change. The current version is published at this URL with the updated date shown above. Where required, material changes are communicated and additional consent is obtained before new consent-dependent processing begins.
14. Contact
For questions about this policy, advertising choices, purchases, or deletion of information, contact Spina Giovanni Emanuele.